Minutes Oct 27

MINUTES for Fastathon
Minute by Minute Break Down
• Call Rahmania and make sure food will arrive by 4:45
• Call the two speakers, make sure they have directions and know how to get here. Make sure they have your contact information. You will be responsible for making sure they get greeted, seated at their reserved table, and bring food to them. Make sure to give them gifts/thank you card before end of ceremony on behalf of MSA. Also, let them know when they should enter stage, and that once they are done speaking, they should remain on stage at the speakers table
- Call and make sure Wallace Goode is here by 5:30 sharp, make sure you get his number via ucsc
- We now have Abdul Malik Ryan, have him contacted and tell him to be here by 5:00pm sharp
• Make and bring signs for directions and food labels
• Make announcement at Jumaa and bring prayer
• Greeters
- We will NOT need to check people’s names, JUST have them SIGN IN.
• Bring cooler from MSA office and ice from Max
• Get Drinks from Harper Foods

3:30 – 4:00 - Gather all decorations, donation box, programs, flyers, surveys, pens, prayer rugs, food warmers, serving spoons, drinks, cups, cutlery, napkins, cooler, and ice and bring them to I-House no later than 4:00.
- There will be a BOX in the MSA office by tonight, ALL PRINTED MATERIALS NEED TO BE IN THAT BOX by 5:00 PM THURSDAY!!
- All STUFF MUST be in office or in Rockefeller Prayer room by 3:30
- EVERYTHING in I-House by 4:00 SHARP.

4:00 - 5:00 - Decoration/Setup Committee, available Shura members, and volunteers
• Set up all tables with centerpieces.
• Place program booklet/flood relief flier on each table setting.
• Place Donations for Flood Relief placard next to jar/centerpiece. (UChicago for Pakistan people should be helping with this).
• Place survey in middle of table with few pens.
• Make sure food tables are also set and ready to go.
• Test AV equipment.
• Have food warmers set on the table. The cooler should be set up and have the drinks and water bottles in there.
- Welcome BANNER should be set on the entrance table.
- BREAK FAST Banner should be made and set on entrance TABLE
• Have table outside with welcoming posterboard, flyer, and 2 donation boxes (Pakistan Flood Relief and GCFD). Remind them to break their fast at 5:49 pm.

Shariah with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Salam everyone!

The MSA will be hosting Faraz Rabbani to come and speak concerning sharia. Here is the email with all the information:

WHAT IS SHARIAH?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

When: Wednesday, October 27th, 6-7pm
Where: University of Chicago
Stuart Hall, Room 104
5835 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Shariah has become a heated topic of discussion in American popular media in recent years. More often than not there is an unclear conception of what Shariah actually is. In this talk, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, a North American Muslim jurist, will discuss the sources, principles, and objectives of Shariah in order to better inform our understanding thereof.

OPEN TO ALL! FOOD PROVIDED!

SPEAKER BIO: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani is a teacher of Hanafi fiqh and the Islamic sciences. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a degree in Commerce and Economics, he spent three years in Damascus where he studied fiqh, ‘aqida, and other subjects with Shaykh Adib al-Kallas, Shaykh Hassan al-Hindi, Shaykh Muhammad Jumu’a, Shaykh Muhammad Qaylish, Shaykh Mu’min al-‘Annan, and others.

After ten years overseas, Shaykh Faraz returned to Canada in the Summer of 2007. In May 2008 he founded SeekersGuidance to deal with the urgent need to spread Islamic knowledge--both online and on the ground--in a reliable, relevant, inspiring, and accessible manner.

With fellow SeekersGuidance teachers Shaykh Yahya Rhodus and Shaykh Omar Qureshi, Shaykh Faraz hopes to establish a model Islamic seminary that will produce Islamic scholars of the highest caliber, through excellence in teaching, curriculum, spiritual training, and a deep spirit of service--with knowledge of both religion and contemporary social and intellectual realities. Shaykh Faraz also serves as a partner and legal advisor with StraightWay Ethical Advisory.

He is the author of Absolute Essentials of Islam: Faith, Prayer, and the Path of Salvation According to the Hanafi School (White Thread Press, 2004.) In 2009, Shaykh Faraz was named one of the 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center.

Minutes Oct 20

Dr. Riaz Event
• 7:00pm at Harper 140
• Food (snacks) and drinks
• Shura arrive at 6:15 to help setup, pray maghrib
o Setup after maghrib
• Dr. Riaz will arrive at about 6:30
• Have Q&A for 20 minutes after talk (which will be limited to 45 minutes!)
• Surveys to be given to attendees

Fastathon
Publicity

Nightly ‘Isha prayer at Rockefeller at 8pm

Send email concerning Dr. Riaz event, ‘Isha, Qur’an class

Unveiled

Sherman Jackson
• Do some Malcolm X type of event (maybe as MSA banquet?)
Zaid Shakir
• Sometime during early IAM?
• Topic / Type of event?
• Find out if he can come anytime from Feb-April?

Ingrid Matson

Jack Brown

Sheikh Hussain
• Would be willing to give a talk after Feb.

Sheikh Faraz Rabbani (an MSA only event)
• Oct 27th-28th
• Ask him why he cant come 5th or 4th of Nov.

Umer Farouq Abdullah classes
• Agreed to give free classes at UofC in May/June

IMAN
• Get involved with them, perhaps with other RSOs as well

2 day high school recruitment
• Reach out to youth groups, set it up with administration and bring kids to campus, introduce them to UofC
• Get dining hall passes, etc.
• General body would have to work hard advertising to their high schools and advertise/promote event to students

Minutes Oct 13

Kamran Riaz Next Thursday, Oct. 14th
• Put up your fliers
• Advertise event to your listhosts (Saalika will send intro email)
• Try to be at Harper 140 at 6:15
• Set up place with food/drink etc.
• Someone bring rugs!!
• Have time cards (15, 10, and 5 minutes)
• Have surveys to give out after event

Fastathon  Oct. 29th, starts at 5:30 pm at I-House
• We can incorporate Flood Relief into program
• Have collection jars at each table? (use the glass centerpiece from last year)

Isha email (specify its for everyone)
Qur’an class (send an email on Friday right before class specifically for it)
Co-Sponsors for Fastathon
• Women and Science
• HFS (Hindi Film Society)
• China Care
• Mission for Vision
• SASA
• Interfaith Dialogue
MSA Banquet early February

For Eid…Downtown anyone? Suggestions?

Support UChicago for Pakistan

Bismihi Taa'ala
Asslaamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah,

Please join this Facebook group (http://tiny.cc/uchicagopakistanrelief) to support UChicago for Pakistan. UChicago for Pakistan will have its next meeting this Thursday at 9 PM in Harper 150. If you are new to this group, please do not hesitate to join us. We are welcoming new members at any time. Please bring a friend or two with you :)

UChicago for Pakistan will be selling shirts to raise funds for Pakistan Flood Relief.

Buy these awesome t-shirts to support UChicago for Pakistan Flood Relief Efforts. The shirts are bought from the company Rickshaw Lane, which sells high-quality t-shirts with the promise of “buy one, give one.” This means that for each shirt you buy, you are personally donating one shirt to charity.

Each t-shirt will be 10$ and for every shirt that is bought, a shirt is donated by the shirt company to Pakistan flood relief victims. On top of that, all the proceeds from the shirts will also go towards flood relief. By buying these shirts, your not only giving money towards Pakistan Flood Relief, but your also buying another shirt to be donated to flood victims . All of this for 10$ !


Please pre-order the shirts so we can get a sense of how many we should order, and how many of each size :
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhJvwZ0Np4L4dENhS0p1NThqUm9fT1hTM1VsbDl1MFE&hl=en&authkey=CNrukuEC

If you place a pre-order for a t-shirt you will be notified by email when the shirts are available and where to pick them up from (most likely Reynold's Club):

SPREAD THE WORD!

Ma Salam,
MSA, UChicago for Pakistan

Modern Science and the Quran

Assalamu alaikum everyone!!!

We are inviting Dr. Kamran Riaz this week on Thursday to talk about Modern Science and the Holy Qur'an. He'll touch on why Muslims think the Qur'an is a divine book and could not have been written by a human - he'll also go over the sceintific proof present in the Qur'an that has been proven today :)

It's also a Da'wah event, so be sure to invite others.

I look forward to seeing most of you there, InshaAllah!

Minutes October 6, 2010

“Modern Science and the Quran” with Dr. Kamran Riaz  Next Thursday, Oct. 14th
• Advertise event to your listhosts
• Saad starts with Qur’an recitation at 7:00 pm
• Saalika will do introduction
• Have surveys to give out after event
Fastathon -> Oct. 29th, starts at 5:30 pm at I-House
• We will send out email concerning tabling, sign up for it
• We can incorporate Flood Relief into program
Isha email (specify it’s for everyone)
Qur’an class (send an email on Friday right before class specifically for it)
Co-Sponsors for Fastathon
• Women and Science
• HFS (Hindi Film Society)
• China Care
• Mission for Vision
• SASA
• Interfaith Dialogue
MSA Banquet

First General Body Meeting!

Salam everyone!

I hope your first week went well, and that you got into all the classes you wanted. As you may or may not know, the MSA will be having its General Body Meeting this Wednesday insha Allah. It's actually more of an iftar/general body meeting, so food will also be provided. It will be the first time this year that the MSA gets together, socialize, as well as discuss the upcoming events this quarter. It will be in the basement of Rockefeller, in the Uncommon Room (where we usually have our dinners). Please arrive by 6:30 pm since maghrib will also be prayed. Well, that's all for now. Take care of yourselves.

Assalam u Alaikum.